Road 970 Nuorgam, Teno river
Nuorgam, Utsjoki, Finland
From Finland's northernmost village across the Teno river to the Norwegian fells; B/W at night.
Northern lights tonight in Nuorgam
Live hourly aurora score for Nuorgam, Finland: NOAA activity, cloud cover, darkness and the moon, with the nearest webcams.
Lapland, Finland, 70.08°N 27.88°ESaariselkä guide
Nearest webcams
Closest cameras first, including road and weather cameras within about 400 km.
E6 Tana bru
Tana bru, Finnmark
Colour view of the floodlit Tana bridge and river, with a band of dark sky above.
Aurora Holidays – live northern lights camera, Utsjoki
Utsjoki on the Teno River, Finnish Lapland
Covers much of the northern sky; aurora streaming runs late August to early April.
Aurora Borealis (LIVE!) – Utsjoki
Utsjoki, Finland · Seasonal
Long-running Utsjoki channel that goes live on aurora nights in the dark season; there is no permanent stream to embed.
FMI Auroras Now! / MIRACLE all-sky cameras
Finnish Lapland (Kevo, Kilpisjärvi and other stations) · Seasonal
Scientific camera network, winter only; images are for teaching and non-commercial research.
Fv890 Gednje
Gednje, Varanger peninsula, Finnmark
Very dark tundra plateau; a nearby lamp can partly wash out the sky.
Road 970 Nuvvus
Nuvvus, Utsjoki, Finland
Teno valley with fells on both sides and sky between them; infrared B/W at night.
Fv890 Kongsfjord
Kongsfjord, Berlevåg, Finnmark
Colour camera on the treeless Varanger peninsula; dark hills, a band of sky and few lights.
Road 92 Nitsijärvi
Nitsijärvi, Inari, Finland
Lake view with a thin forest line; a very dark site, mostly sky; infrared B/W at night.
Northern lights in Nuorgam: what to expect
- Latitude
- 70.08° N
- Magnetic latitude
- 66.7°
- Kp needed
- Any
- Clear-night chance
- ~75%
Nuorgam lies at 70.08° N in Lapland, Finland, about 391 km north of the Arctic Circle. With a geomagnetic latitude of about 66.7°, it sits under the auroral oval: even quiet nights (Kp 1–2) can bring aurora overhead. Over the long term, a dark, clear night here has roughly a 75% chance of some visible aurora.
Darkness is never the problem in winter: the sun stays below the horizon from late November to mid-January, and nights with at least two hours of real darkness run from early September to early April. Between mid-May and late July the midnight sun makes aurora impossible to see. Around the winter solstice the sun is more than 12° below the horizon for about 16.5 hours a day.
Clouds decide most nights. The hourly score above uses the live cloud forecast for this exact spot; for trip planning, the Saariselkä guide (186 km away) covers the best months and clear-night odds for the wider region.
Coordinates: Wikipedia. Magnetic latitude, Kp and darkness are calculated from them; the clear-night chance is a long-term average, not a forecast.